Rim for vehicle-wheels



(No Model.)

B. H. OLDS.

RIM FOR VEHICLE WHEELS.

N0. 545,375. Patented Aug. 27, 1895.

NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

EUGENE H. OLDS, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

RIM FOR VEHICLE-WHEELS.

SvPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 5d5,375, dated August27, 1895..

Application filed July 18, 1894. Serial No. 517,923- (N0 model) To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE. H. OLDs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle Wheels, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the manner of'uniting the endsof the rims of wheels adapted for velocipedes or other light carriages;and the object of my improvement is to provide a joint self'supportingin every direction in which strain is exerted in the use of such wheels.

The features of my invention by which I attain these objects are fullyset forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, making apartof this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective inside viewof the disunited ends of a rim containing my invention. Fig. 2 is anoutside plan view of the same as they appear when united. Fig. 3 is across-section on the line a: a, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofthe rim thus formed. Fig. 5 is an inside plan view of the disunited endsof a rim containing my invention in another form. Fig. 6 is aperspective view of the inside of one of these parts. Fig. 7 is across-section on the line .2 a, Fig. 5.

I have shown the outer side of the rim concaved for the reception of acushioned or tubular tire, but the improvement is equally well adaptedfor any other form.

I have shown two forms of my invention, and williirst describe thatillustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and t.

A B represent end sections of a rim-piece, the abutting ends of eachbeing provided with three interlocking tongues.

0 represents a center tongue projecting from the outer face of the end Aon the line of the circle of the periphery of the rim, and is beveled onits inner side from its base to its end.

cl (Z represent two tongues, one at each side of c, and these arebeveled on their outer sides from their bases to their ends. Ihe threetongues c d d on the end B are formed in precisely the same way, exceptthat they are respectively beveled in an opposite direction and that 0projects on the line of the inner circle of the rim.

In the form illustrated in Figs. 5, 6, and '7, I have shown each end ofthe rim provided with two tongues, one of which, (Z, is beveled on theoutside, and the other cl on the inside. When thus formed the endsreadily interlock and form a very safe, strong joint, which isself-supporting in every direction in which strain is exerted inordinary use, and cannot be separated except by a direct pulllengthwise.

I prefer the rim to be formed of a single piece, but two or more may beemployed and united as above described.

What I claim as iny invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- 1. A rim jointfor a wheel, having the meeting ends of the rim-pieceformed with diverging, elongated, beveled and pointed tongues andcorrespondingly shaped grooves, the tongues of one rim-piece lyingopposite and interlocking with the grooves of the other rimpiece,substantially as shown and described.

2. A rim-piece for a vehicle-wheel having its ends formed with forkedinterlocking tongues having opposing tapering bevels throughout theirentire len th, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

EUGENE II. OLDS.

Witnesses:

J. A. SHEPARD, O. H. BROOKS.

